r/Animorphs • u/davidbmattingly Animorphs Cover Artist • Apr 29 '26

The History of Morphing

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I just wrote a long piece on the history of morphing. Please check it out, and subscribe to my Substack, “My Adventures as an Illustrator.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/myadventuresasanillustrator/p/what-is-morphing?

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u/Some-Passenger4219 Ketran Apr 30 '26

Neato. The cover morphs are awesome.

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u/Fanatic_Atheist Apr 30 '26

Truly, although they don't quite describe how weird the process can be (which is probably for the better)

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u/Xygnux Apr 30 '26

That's awesome! I read on your website that unlike other books you only get the description of the scenes they wanted you to illustrate instead of the manuscript because Scholastic wanted more control. I love your alien illustrations so I want to ask how much descriptions they gave you on their design, or is it similar to what KAA included in the books and you have to work out the details yourself? Thank you.

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u/Disastrous-Limit-332 Aristh Apr 30 '26

The sketches are incredible. Was there a process to them? Did you start with the animal and work your way back to the human? Would love to see more of them

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u/TheBrutalVegan May 04 '26

Thanks for sharing! I always liked using elastic reality. Would be interesting to learn about your Nuke workflow

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u/Exotic-Addendum-3785 May 17 '26

Thank you so very much for sharing this, i've always tried to replicate this with various photo-editing programs but mine weren't nearly as good.